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6877 East Lake Road Auburn, NY 13021 315-255-1785 800-457-8897 www.merry-go-round.com Known as “Broadway in the Finger Lakes,” the Playhouse is Upstate New York’s most popular professional theatre performing favorite Broadway musicals from May – October. The Playhouse is located in a historic carousel building in picturesque Emerson Park.

1846. Fleet Street, London. Stephen Sondheim’s musical masterpiece has achieved worldwide success as a musical, an opera, in concert and most recently as a film by Tim Burton starring Johnny Depp. An infamous tale of an unjustly exiled barber, Sweeney Todd returns seeking vengeance against the lecherous judge who framed him. The road to revenge leads Todd to Mrs. Lovett, …

Summer, 1953. Florence, Italy. Margaret Johnson, the wife of an American businessman, is touring the Tuscan countryside with her daughter, Clara. While sightseeing, Clara – a beautiful, surprisingly childish young woman – loses her hat in a sudden gust. As if guided by an unseen hand, the hat lands at the feet of Fabrizio Naccarelli, a handsome Florentine, who returns …

1950s New York City. The world’s greatest love story takes to the streets in this landmark Broadway musical that is one of the theatre’s finest accomplishments. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is transported to modern-day New York City, as two young idealistic lovers find themselves caught between warring street gangs – the “American” Jets and the Puerto Rican Sharks. Their struggle …

1950s New York City. The world’s greatest love story takes to the streets in this landmark Broadway musical that is one of the theatre’s finest accomplishments. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is transported to modern-day New York City, as two young idealistic lovers find themselves caught between warring street gangs – the “American” Jets and the Puerto Rican Sharks. Their …

Celebrate the life of famed humorist, performer and Oklahoma-native Will Rogers in this song and dance spectacular. Set within the famous Ziegfeld Follies, every scene and song in this musical comedy is a lavish production number as we reminisce with one of American’s beloved folk heroes. Stunning showgirls, tapping wranglers, stellar rope tricks and one of Cy Coleman’s best scores, …